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Subject:Re[2]: A puzzlement: is this a virus? From:"Walker, Arlen P" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 10 Apr 1998 08:53:47 -0500
You didn't say, but since she's using AOL, it seems that your
coworker is sending the files from home. I'm not a networking
expert, but I'm wondering if it's possible for a file to pick up a
virus while traveling across the the internet.
Not without postulating a vicious enough conspiracy to make any and all
security precautions useless.
It passes through a lot of equipment, yes, but simply passing through
equipment is not enough to infect it. It's not physical proximity which
causes computer viruses to spread.
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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